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Legendary Digital Media and Fullscreen have partnered with YouTube phenoms Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart in an updated version of Sid & Marty Krofft‘s classic 70’s TV series Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, bringing the property to a new generation of viewers. Fullscreen will debut and exhibit Electra Woman and Dyna Girl in the U.S. with Legendary Television Distribution overseeing global distribution. Sid & Marty Krofft will executive produce the project.

The reboot will start internet superstars Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart as the seventies icons (shut up, this is my article). The series, comes on the heels of Helbig’s crossover from YouTube fame to television as the host of a late night talk show for E! which premieres in April. Both Helbig and Hart have large social media followings with a combined total of over 10 million subscribers and followers over all of their YouTube and social media platforms.

Fans of Sid & Marty Krofft are well versed in the 1970s oddity Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, a super hero series about two women crime fighters that spoofed of Batman and his sidekick Robin. It was a segment shown as part of the 1976 Saturday morning series The Krofft Supershow and starred soap opera queen Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis. In 2001, the Krofft's decided to reboot the property as its own half hour comedy series, which continued the story of the original, only now Electra Woman has retired from crime fighting to live in a trailer park after Dyna Girl ran off with her husband. Markie Post of Night Court fame took on the role of Electra Woman in this failed series, while Anne Stedman played the former sidekick Dyna Girl. The pilot of which has resurfaced and is notable for its brief appearances by Aquaman and The Flash, while other DC notables get mentioned.

In 1976, Sid and Marty Krofft ("H.R. Pufnstuf") created Electra Woman and Dyna Girl for their series The Krofft Supershow. There were sixteen 12-minute segments, that featured Deidre Hall ("Days of Our Lives") as Electra Woman (played by ) and Judy Strangis ("Room 222") as her sidekick Dyna Girl. For whatever reason, Warner Bros. commissioned a new version in 2001 with Markie Post ("Night Court") as Electra Woman and Anne Stedman ("That '70s Show") as Dyna Girl. Where the original version was a spoof on the 60's Batman & Robin television series, this new version was a cynical take on superheroes. Markie Post's Electra Woman is portrayed as former superhero who has become trailer park trash. She's hooked on booze, and has a mighty chip on her shoulder because her original Dyna Girl stole her husband. Watch the pilot above and be on the lookout for brief appearances by The Flash...